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EDIT:Archibald must have been homesick right enough... He came back to Scotland where he died on 13 Mar 1924http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article ... l-title=13The matching death is registered in Hillhead, Lanarkshire--------------------------------------------------------------------

Australian newspaper Melbourne :"McKellar.- On the 13th March 1924, Scotland. Archibald, the beloved husband of the late Janet McKellar of Kilkerran Farm, Poor-???? near Cressy, Victoria, and beloved brother of the late Mrs. W. Maxwell of McKillop Street, ???long."

Reading between the lines of this newspaper, homesickness provides some info. Calling their farm in Australia “Kilkerran,” could well indicate a fond attachment to the region. Indicating that the family obviously walked to the Island at low tide to tend their sheep (butcher) and a long way to walk for Archibald to go to school. George Street could have been the shop.

The buidings beside the light are the principal keepers and relief keepers houses. The building along theroad is the lookout....it was the command post for the anti submarine boom. The ruin on the south shore isknown as the sheep hoose....there is no real evidence of who lived there